Smith — a convicted child molester — had befriended Perrywinkle and offered to buy her children clothing at a Jacksonville Walmart.

He then suggested getting them food at the front of the store, and Cherish went with him. She vanished.

The little girl’s body was found the next day in a marshy area.

Cherish Perrywinkle was just 8 when she was murdered by Donald Smith. He has been sentenced to death. FACEBOOK

During the penalty phase, a woman Smith tried to kidnap and molest when she was a child delivered a power-packed victim impact statement.

The jury heard that the grey-haired killer is a diagnosed psychopath without an iota of empathy. It took them 15 minutes to convict him.

Rayne Perrywinkle said she’s determined to have something positive come from her daughter’s tragic death.

Donald Smith faces the needle in the Florida death house for murdering Cherish Perrywinkle. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

She wants child sex predators like Smith locked up forever.

“I want to strengthen laws to get predators locked up where they should be, so they don’t have the chance to keep getting out to murder children, to lure parents such as myself that were naive,” Perrywinkle said.

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